James 4:8

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you, with cleansed hands and purified hearts. Repentance turns the whole person back to God.

Cross-references · 39

• Ps 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
• Heb 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
• Mal 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
• Zech 1:3So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• 2 Chr 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• Hos 6:1–2Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
• Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Ezek 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• Ps 51:6–7Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• Isa 1:15–16When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
• Ps 73:28But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• 1 Chr 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
• 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
• Matt 23:25–26Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
• Matt 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
• Isa 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
• 1 Tim 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
• Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• Ps 18:20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• Luke 11:39–40“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
• Ps 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• Jas 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
• Gen 18:23Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
• Matt 15:2“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
• Jer 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
• Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
• Matt 27:24When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
• Isa 13:15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
• Ps 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

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